Safe Fall: Humanoid robot fall direction change through intelligent stepping and inertia shaping

Although fall is a rare event in the life of a humanoid robot, we must be prepared for it because its consequences are serious. In this paper we present a fall strategy which rapidly modifies the robot's fall direction in order to avoid hitting a person or an object in the vicinity. Our approac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yun, Seung-kook, Goswami, Ambarish, Sakagami, Yoshiaki
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74260